The best weight-for-weight boxer of all time, Filipino Manny Pacquiao, has registered a bid for a congressional seat representing the southern province of Sarangani for next year's elections.
Ukraine's Vladimir Klitschko retained his world heavyweight titles by handing Uzbek fighter Ruslan Chagaev his first defeat with a technical knockout in the tenth round.
Born in Kabul, Sharif illegally left for Europe at the age of 14. He was then abandoned by his traffickers in France before becoming France's junior boxing champion 3 years later. He is still seeking French nationality.
Thirty-six-year-old Mexican-American boxer Oscar de la Hoya has announced his retirement from the sport. Known as the "Golden Boy", de la Hoya won the world championship title 10 times, and has a record of 39 victories and 6 defeats.
Former boxing champion Shane Mosley has been named by the boss of BALCO laboratories in a doping scandal that started in the early 2000s. This case already knocked down top US athlete Marion Jones.
In this edition: pensioners go back to work as the crisis hits Japan's ageing population; unemployment raises threat of social unrest in China; and the portrait of a North Korean boxing champion exiled in neighbouring South Korea.
Three years after his last fight, Ukraine's Vitali Klitschko retook his WBC heavyweight title by defeating Nigeria's Samuel Peter in Berlin. Klitschko and his younger brother Wladimir together hold all three boxing heavyweight titles.
In his latest film, Tunisian film director Hichem Ben Ammar traced the lives of boxing champions before independence, when Tunisian communities fought out their differences in the ring.
Mexican Antonio Margarito ended Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto's unbeaten record claiming the WBA welterweight title on Saturday with an 11th-round stoppage.
